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ByRichelle SteynJul 25, 20254 mins

What AI can simulate, these humans embody: fragility, risk, truth, and sacred meaning.

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ByRichelle SteynJun 23, 202516 mins

“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and…

Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space

ByRichelle SteynJun 9, 20254 mins

“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”

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Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony to describe how dominant classes maintain power, not solely through economic control, but by shaping culture and ideology. By framing the accepted norms, values, and beliefs, they secure consent from the public, even when these structures work against the public’s own interests. Gramsci’s insights remain deeply relevant, […]

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